Fkuit box



I. P. BROWN. FRUIT BOX.

No. 68,948". Patented Sept. 17; 1867.

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BROWN. OF THE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 68,943, dated September 17, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-BOXES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: V

Be it known that LISRAEL F. BROWN, of New London, in the county of NewLondon, and State of Conneoti'cut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Fruit-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the follow ingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enableothers skilled in the art monks and use the same reference being bad tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

v The objects of the present invention are, first,,to eonstruct'afruit-box in such manner as to avoid all or at least a great amount ofthe shrinkage of'ths wood of-which the box is made, the importance ofwhich, not-only tothe seller'but to the purchaser of the fruit containedin it, is obvious; and second, to obtain a simple, cheap, and eflicientfastening device or devices from the bottom to the sides or otherportions of the box. In the accompanying plateof drawings myimprovements in fruit-boxes are illustrated-1 Figure'l being a plan ortop view of a. box mode according thereto, end

Figure-2 a-trunsverse vertical section, taken'in the plane of theline-z: 2:, fig. 1.

Figure 8, a. separate view of the fastening. I

A, in the drawings, represents a. fruit-box made and constructedaccording to the present invention. This 'box A is made of e. thinveneer orstrip of wood' that at suitable points is sawed across itswidth, so that it can be bent at such points at right angles, and thusbe susceptible of "being made into the form of a. square box, with oneend of the strip thereto lapping over and upon the inside face of theother end, where, by means of fastenings B, suitably applied, the twoends are .secured together. The fastenings B are made of a narrow bandof flexible sheet metal, that is bent at one end so as to forlnacross-ar1n, C, to suchend, one half of which is in two thicknesses.- Toapply the fa-stenings B, the ,straight'portion F of the sume is firstpassed through a hole, E, made inthe sides ofthe box at the properpoints, where-to be fastened together from the inside of the same towardthe outside until its cross-arm comes against the box, when bend theacid straight portion up or down, so asto set over and about the upperor lower edge to the box, as the case may be. G, the bottom of the box,made of the same material as the sides, and sawedacro'ss its width, sothat its two ends H can be bent up along the inside of the box, where,'by means of fastenings B applied to the some it, is secured,asi'splainly shown in V the drawings. v

By means of the extension-pieces H ef'the box-bottomapplied to theinside of the box it is plain the shrinlb,

age of the box is in a great measure prevented, us it is impossible forthe wood to shrink endways.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The fasteningB, in combination with the bottom G and sides H, as herein set 'forth,for the purpose specified. V I p 2; The bottom G to the box, appliedthereto'suhstantisllv as and for the purpose described.

' ISRAEL F. BROWN.

Witnesses: v

a L. D. Jonnson,

S..M. More.

